Chapter 2806-2818 [The Trick of the Uzo Heir]
Conan held this thin piece of paper that carried a lot of information, and couldn't help but smile sinisterly.
The next moment, a big hand reached out from the side and took the disk away.
Conan looked at his empty hands, then looked up at Inspector Megure in disbelief: "???"
Inspector Megure handed the disk to Officer Takagi: "Why put it back to its original place? Put it away first, and take it to the Forensic Department when we return to the police station. If the murderer noticed it and tampered with the records inside, there might be traces left on the disk."
Conan: “…”
No way!! If he gave it to the forensic department and sealed it as evidence after inspection, he would never see this precious disk again!
"Now that things have come to this, we must find the murderer first." Conan gritted his teeth, "Only if we can prove as soon as possible that the disk has nothing to do with the murder case, will I have a chance to get it."
"Let me think about it. There must be some evidence that I overlooked..."
As he thought about it, his eyes couldn't help but fall on Jiang Xia.
——Speaking of which, if we want to solve the case as quickly as possible, we should look for evidence wherever we can, so why not look for Jiang...
"No, what am I thinking!"
Conan suddenly woke up, hit his head hard, and reflected in his heart: "How can I give up my principles as a detective for the Black Organization? - I should work hard to solve the case myself, instead of taking Jiang Xia's shortcut."
After warning himself several times, Conan finally turned his attention away from the "Black Organization clues" that were so close to him.
He looked at the disk reluctantly, as if he were looking at a hostage, then turned around resolutely and looked at the scene.
Just at this moment, the forensic doctor seemed to have discovered something and said to Jiang Xia, "Mr. Jiang Xia, the deceased's calf seems to be a little strange."
Jiang Xia walked over.
The forensic doctor reached out and pulled up the left trouser leg of the deceased: "Look, there is a little mark left by the socks at this position, but the corresponding place on the right foot--"
He pulled up his right trouser leg again: "There are absolutely no marks - on the contrary, there are some scratches on the right ankle, which look like he scratched it with the big toe of his left foot."
Jiang Xia nodded: "The deceased must have used his left foot to take off the sock on his right foot before he died."
The forensic doctor couldn't help but mutter: "He was almost dead but still had the mood to take off his socks. What on earth was he thinking at the time..."
Jiang Xia pointed to the chessboard beside the table: "It should be to match this."
Conan looked at the chessboard eagerly. In a flash, a series of clues came together and he understood it instantly.
The forensic doctor was stunned: "Match the chessboard? What does that mean?"
Jiang Xia: "It now seems that, not counting today, the murderer must have come to this room twice - the first time he came, he tied the victim to the table with a blanket and tape, waiting for him to have a heart attack.
“If one’s luck is bad enough, then this period of time will not be too short, so after tying up Mr. Itakura, the murderer temporarily left the hotel.
"When he felt the victim was almost dead, he came back again and planned to fake the scene of the illness.
"In between these two times, Mr. Itakura, who was tied to the chair, took off his socks.
"When the murderer came back, he found a sock next to the body. He was worried that this incongruity would attract the attention of the police, so he quickly put it on the deceased."
"I see!" Inspector Megure came over at some point. He listened to the reliable brother's reasoning and felt that he understood. "Mr. Itakura's upper body was fixed to the chair and only his legs could move, so he tried to take off his socks with his feet to attract our attention. Uh..."
As he was talking, he suddenly felt guilty: If Brother Jiang Xia hadn't been here, even if the forensics doctors noticed something strange about the deceased's feet, they would probably be confused and think that it was some kind of change caused by a heart attack.
Just thinking about it, Jiang Xia shook his head: "Taking off the socks is the premise for Mr. Itakura to leave a message of death, not the result - his real purpose is to expose his toes and then grab something with his flexible toes."
He pointed to the chessboard next to him: "These are the chess pieces."
"!"
The Go board next to it, which looked ordinary at first glance, immediately became the focus of everyone's attention.
“Is this the death message left by the deceased?”
There were many black and white chess pieces on the chessboard, which were concentrated in the four corners of the chessboard. Inspector Megure stared at it for a while and shook his head helplessly: "I can only see that this is a chess game with no result."
"I know, I know!" Conan seized the opportunity and showed up. He winked at Jiang Xia and said to the police officer, "Brother Jiang Xia just told me."
Jiang Xia glanced at him. Conan turned his back to the policeman, blinked his big, innocent eyes like a primary school student, and bowed to him with his hands clasped.
"..." Thinking about the many contributions this classmate had made to his career as a psychic, Jiang Xia nodded generously and reluctantly took the blame.
"I told you 'just now'? Brother Jiang Xia actually knew it so long ago?" Inspector Megure tried hard to recall, but he couldn't remember when Jiang Xia had spoken to Conan.
But then he thought about it and realized that he had been looking around the scene, so it was normal for him to have overlooked it. So Inspector Megure quickly turned his attention back to the murder case: "What does this chessboard mean?"
Conan cleared his throat, looked at Officer Takagi, and began to direct: "Do as I... ahem, do as Brother Jiang Xia said just now - first hand over the diary disk and the unopened blank disk in the deceased's luggage to Inspector Megure."
"Oh, oh." Officer Takagi glanced at Jiang Xia and saw that he had no objection, so he did as Conan said and returned the disk that he had originally intended to hand over to the Forensic Department to Officer Megure.
Officer Megure held the disk, looking a little confused: "And then?"
Conan pointed to the stool in front of the desk: "Inspector, go sit there and turn on the computer on the desk again."
Inspector Megure also glanced at Jiang Xia. Seeing Jiang Xia nodded, he hesitated and sat down: "Can you understand the death message like this?"
Conan suppressed his nervousness and nodded calmly, "Yes, insert the diary disk and drag the diary file to the desktop. Then insert the blank disk and copy the diary into it."
Inspector Megure: “…” What nonsense is this? I don’t understand. I don’t understand at all.
Officer Takagi knew that his superior was computer illiterate, so he ran over to help.
Soon, he fell into Conan's straightforward trap and copied the diary to the blank disk.
(End of this chapter)
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